A68840:1524
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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I know there are some of the schoolmen which think that it was not a very Dove, which descended upon the head of Christ, but only that it was an airy & thick body, which appeared to be a Dove.1 Yet Augustine de Agone Christiano writeth the contrary, namely that it was a very Dove: for to express the property of the holy ghost, a thing (saith he) serveth better then a sign, even as Christians also are better expressed in Sheep and Lambs, then in the likeness of Sheep and Lambs. Also if Christ had a true body, and deceived not, then t•e holy ghost had in very deed the body of a Dove.
I know there are some of the schoolemen which thinke that it was not a very Doue, which discended vpon the head of Christ, but onely that it was an ayry & thicke body, which appeared to be a Dooue.1 Yet Augustine de Agone Christiano writeth the contrary, namely that it was a very Doue: for to expresse the property of the holy ghost, a thing (sayth he) serueth better then a signe, euen as Christians also are better expressed in Sheepe and Lambes, then in the lykenes of Sheepe and Lambes. Also if Christ had a true bodye, and deceaued not, then t•e holy ghost had in very deede the body of a Dooue.
- 1Augustine.
Tertullian addeth: Thou wilt demand where the body of the Dove became,1 when the spirit was taken again into heaven, and likewise of the Angels. It was by the same means taken away, whereby it was made. If thou haddest seen when it was brought forth of nothing, thou shouldest also have known when it was turned to nothing. If the beginning was not visible, no more was the end. Farther, he remitteth the reader to John. Was he also (saith he) a fantasy after his resurrection, when he offered his hands and feet to be seen of his Disciples? saying: behold that it is I, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. Then Christ is brought in as a Juggler or Conjurer. And in his third book against Marcion. Wherefore his Christ, that is, Christ of the true God, because he should not lye, neither deceive, and by that means peradventure should be counted the Christ of the creator, was not that which he appeared to be, and feigned to be that thing which he was, flesh, and not flesh, man and not man, wherefore Christ is also God, and not God. For why should he not also carry the fantasy of God? Shall I believe him as touching this inward substance, that is overthrown as touching his outward substance? Howe shall he be counted true in a secrete thing, that is found so false in an open thing? And